Hobart Theatre
51-05 31st Avenue,
Woodside,
NY
11377
51-05 31st Avenue,
Woodside,
NY
11377
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Previously operated by: Interboro Circuit Inc.
Architects: Charles A. Sandblom
Functions: Retail
Styles: Streamline Moderne
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The Hobart Theatre was part of a group of small, modern theatres that were built near the end of the Depression in Queens neighborhoods that had new houses or apartment developments.
The Hobart Theatre was opened on October 31, 1936, on the borderline between Astoria and Woodside sections of Queens, an area that already had numerous theatres, so it had to settle for never being more than a late-run house. Closed in 1963/1964, the building was converted into a A&P store.
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YES THEY WERE ON THE TRIANGLE NEAR THE BUS STOP TO MASPETH. PAT ABRAMS PHARMACY WAS ON THECORNER OF THE TRIANGLE LATER TAKEN OVER MY MY BEST CHILD HOOD FRIEND DAN SIEGEL UNTIL HE SOLD OUT AND WHENT TO WORKON NORTHERN BLVD. FRAN’S SOLD LOTS OF STUFF MAINLY GREETING CARDS IF I RECALL. IMAGINE, TWO BAKERIES, TWO BARS, TWO LUNCHEONETTES ALL WITHIN TWO HUNDRED FEET!!!
I remember mustachioed Pat Abrams and his protoge Dan Siegel. I used to get stamps there as it was an official US Postal Sub-station. How about one-armed Mr. Greene of Green’s Corner, later taken over by Herb and Sally Katz. That store broke through the wall of the Chinese Laundry and expanded in the 70’s, I think.
The drugstore was “B&D” and the soda fountain was called “Eddie’s” when I arrived in ‘55 when my classmate Frank Eisenberg’s dad ran it before selling to Harry Lipshitz when it became known as Max & Herman’s. Remember DeDona Pizza with Silvio and Pop?
Hi The drugstore on the corner of the “Island” was absolutely Pat’s Pharmacy and then taken over by Danny. The other pharmacy with the lunch counter/soda fountain was Eddie’s. He was a slightly disabled WW2 vet and made me egg salad sandwiches every day from 1948 to 1952.I think I remember DeDona Pizza right next to PS 151 and there was another Pizza shop right next to Wintermeyers bakery, so we also had two pharmacies and two pizza shops. Two by Two. The original drugstore as I recall was Rexall and became B&D. My memories only cover up to maximum 1960 or maybe even earlier, so lots changed.
to your earlier, my bedroom overlooked fifty fourth st and the chinese laundry and the liquor store were adjacent to each other. There was an alley way on the other side of the laundry and we placed stoop ball about twenty feet in. We also went up the hill, across the next street and used to take sleds down, crossing the street at some speed and risk. We called it the Big Hill and the Little Hill. You had to carry a lot of speed to make it all the way down. I’m glad I can still remember any of this in my 79th year.!!!!
PS Fred, where did you live? may have asked before. I think you are a big younger than I am. You knew Danny, did you know Gary Edles or any of the kids who lived on 54th Street? Danny is alive and kicking Still lives locally and spoke to him about a year ago. Edles lives in the UK and teaches at the University there and until last year I think he is now done, at GW or Georgetown. He was number two lawyer at the old Civil Aviation Board.
DeDona Pizza was past Key Food. The one by PS 151 – cannot recall if it had a name beyond Pizza. I know there were price wars between the two when pizza was 15c a slice and soda was 5 cents for a 7oz. cup
egg salad sandwich at eddies was twenty cents, malted milk same price. Slice of pizza you are right fifteen cents and an egg cream at the candy store was fifteen cents. My dad filled a tooth for five bucks, extracted one for I think ten? Haircut was fifty cents and the movie ticket I think was fifteen cents???
Affiliated with the Interboro Theatres circuit for much of its existence. 1948 ad displayed here
Hey Fred Just checking in. Hope you are ok. Regards Mark